benefits-and-leave

benefits-and-leave is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 68 tokens per session (639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to employee benefits and leave, including health and retirement plans, time off, costs, renewals, and administration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review benefits packages, prepare for plan renewals, write leave policies, and handle leave requests.
Why use it?
It helps organizations choose benefits people use while keeping policies and administration aligned with rules that vary by location.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the people plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or review benefits packages, prepare for plan renewals, write leave policies, and handle leave requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/benefits-and-leave
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,356 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install people, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00068 $0.00639
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00319
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6bb0c8b5ebdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

benefits-and-leave scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Benefits and leave

Benefits are the second largest people cost after salary and the one employees judge most directly. people:compensation-and-leveling covers pay bands and leveling; this covers everything else in the package.

Benefits and leave are heavily regulated and jurisdiction-specific — in the United States, ERISA, COBRA, ACA, FMLA and their state equivalents, with state family-leave and sick-leave laws differing substantially. Plan design and administration need a qualified benefits broker or employment counsel. This structures the decisions and names what to ask.

Design for what people actually value

Benefits budgets are routinely spent on things that survey well and are used rarely, while the things people quietly need are underfunded.

The reliable pattern: health coverage quality, retirement match, and real time off dominate perceived value nearly everywhere. Beyond those, ask rather than assume — a young workforce and one with school-age children value very different things, and the difference is large enough to be worth measuring.

Watch utilization. A benefit nobody uses is either badly communicated or badly chosen, and the two have different remedies.

Cost, and the renewal you should not sleepwalk

Health costs rise faster than general inflation more or less every year, so a flat renewal is not the baseline — the baseline is an increase you must actively negotiate down or absorb by design.

Start renewal months ahead, not weeks. Understand what drives your own experience rating, model plan design changes against employee impact, and market the plan periodically even when you intend to stay — a broker who knows you are not looking negotiates accordingly.

Cost-shifting to employees is a pay cut delivered indirectly. It may be the right call; describe it honestly when you make it, because employees compute it correctly and describing it otherwise costs more trust than the money saved.

Leave: policy is the easy part

Write policy that a manager can apply without calling HR for every case — eligibility, notice, documentation, pay treatment, and how it interacts with other leave types.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 6bb0c8b5ebdf

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benefits-and-leave is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,356 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 639 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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